'Producers have gone to a lot of trouble to make it accurate and authentic of the time.'

Christmas may still be months away but for those who work in TV, preparation is already underway, and the ‘Call The Midwife’ team - who have already filmed their 2016 Christmas special - have now revealed new plot details.

For the festive season, the midwives and nuns will be heading abroad, and the cast have been filming in South Africa.

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The Christmas specials are usually tearjerkers

The episode will be set in a South African village in 1962, when apartheid was being enforced by the government, reports the Mirror.